Quotes About Social Roles

#1. Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Lynn Coady

#2. Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

Richard Hornby

#3. Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Lisa Randall

#4. The aim is to get as close to nature as possible, shattering the tyranny of cultural values and judgements. In the Vedic approach, self-realization has to be achieved by detached adherence to cultural values and judgements, social roles

Devdutt Pattanaik

#5. The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

Edward Alsworth Ross

#6. I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.

Boman Irani

#7. Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Robert Anton Wilson

#8. The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

David Breashears

#9. For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing ... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

Peter Schjeldahl

#10. I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.

Nathalie Emmanuel

#11. Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.

Bryant McGill

#12. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.

Bryant McGill

#13. Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Patricia Hill Collins

#14. Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Assata Shakur

#15. Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

Guler Sabanci

#16. Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

Robert M. Pirsig

#17. Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

Robert Webb

#18. We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

F. Sionil Jose

#19. The heavy scent of perfume and the red slashes of lipstick, so strong in the fifties, revolted me. For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message

Patti Smith

#20. The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values ... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#21. Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

Bell Hooks

#22. If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

Audre Lorde

#23. We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Evgeny Morozov

#24. It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the tradition role of the poet as purveyor of truth for the people.

Virgilio S. Almario

#25. One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#26. It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

Anatol Rapoport

#27. Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person's biological makeup and their eventual role in society.

Sam Killermann

#28. In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

John W. Gardner

#29. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Shannon Mullen

#30. The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

John Rawls

#31. The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

Saul Williams